The law was supposed to increase diversion into treatment and other programs. Instead, it prompted a shift away from community referrals to referrals after arrests.
You just have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Homelessness is caused by lack of affordable housing; it is a housing problem and nothing else.
Where is the homelessness? In KY, WV, KY, and OH, where opioid addiction is worst? Or in fast-growing cities that are not building housing fast enough to keep up? Spoiler alert: find the answer at https://homelessnesshousingproblem.com!
That’s a great idea. How about we hire the homeless to be police officers, teachers. Hell, we could elect them to public office!
But back to sanity - the people living on the streets don’t know how to build the streets that they are living on. We don’t need their advice - the addicted always encourage others to become dysfunctional with them so that they don’t have to feel the social pressure to change.
I recently moved to an apartment at Jackson and 18th. I don't know what's going on at Jackson and 12th, but I see a lot of what I suspect is drug activity at the 1st bus stop on Jackson east of Rainier and that vicinity. Whatever that bored officer is doing does not seem effective either at reducing general activity or helping these people off the streets and getting help. But yeah, a 23% retroactive pay raise will help as well as enacting more performative legislation while accomplishing nothing. That's what we voted for (apparently).
You just have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Homelessness is caused by lack of affordable housing; it is a housing problem and nothing else.
Where is the homelessness? In KY, WV, KY, and OH, where opioid addiction is worst? Or in fast-growing cities that are not building housing fast enough to keep up? Spoiler alert: find the answer at https://homelessnesshousingproblem.com!
Great job getting comment from the people who are, after all, most impacted: the homeless themselves.
Reporters at (ahem) *other publications* seem to think that homeless people should be seen but not heard (but also not seen).
That’s a great idea. How about we hire the homeless to be police officers, teachers. Hell, we could elect them to public office!
But back to sanity - the people living on the streets don’t know how to build the streets that they are living on. We don’t need their advice - the addicted always encourage others to become dysfunctional with them so that they don’t have to feel the social pressure to change.
I recently moved to an apartment at Jackson and 18th. I don't know what's going on at Jackson and 12th, but I see a lot of what I suspect is drug activity at the 1st bus stop on Jackson east of Rainier and that vicinity. Whatever that bored officer is doing does not seem effective either at reducing general activity or helping these people off the streets and getting help. But yeah, a 23% retroactive pay raise will help as well as enacting more performative legislation while accomplishing nothing. That's what we voted for (apparently).
Six months in, Erica’s propaganda has had little effect on this reader.
She should quit.
The error is with the reader.